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Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Fix for Word not properly displaying Visio drawing lines

I work with Word and Visio a bit for incorporating network diagrams into documents. By default, Word will munge dashed lines of a Visio drawing when the drawing is embedded into Word and this is of course highly annoying when you are embedding Visio drawings with dashed lines into Word.

After some searching I found out that this is known behavior because of the way that Visio saves longer lines to save space, but there is a registry hack to fix the problem.

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Fix for Word not properly displaying Visio drawing lines

I work with Word and Visio a bit for incorporating network diagrams into documents. By default, Word will munge dashed lines of a Visio drawing when the drawing is embedded into Word and this is of course highly annoying when you are embedding Visio drawings with dashed lines into Word.

After some searching I found out that this is known behavior because of the way that Visio saves longer lines to save space, but there is a registry hack to fix the problem.